Hot Pockets: Steam App Released For Windows Phone

Share this:

If your pocket telephone has a Halo lady living inside it, good news: Valve have released a Steam app for Windows Phone. Which is mostly exciting because it means Windows Phone now has the Steam mobile authenticator, so you can more easily secure your account with two-factor authentication and also get past those holds on trading for unauthenticated users.

The app is this-a-way and supports Windows Phone 8.1 and above. It is labelled as only the initial release with “limited functionality” but hey, it’s better than a punch in the face. Many things are, really.

It looks like Valve have brought in the chap who’d made an unofficial Steam authenticator for Windows Phone.

You can get desktop (Windows 10) notifications for missed calls. I’ve been notified there a number of times when I had left my phone in the other room with the ringer off. That alone is handy, but I seem to remember when I first heard about it that they planned on expanding the functionality further.

Aside from that, I was a loyal Windows phone user until about 6 months ago. I don’t use her much on Android but if they keep adding features, she could give Google Now a run for its money.

Question. I am thinking of adding the steam authentication to sell some cards, but does this mean i have to enter an authentication EVERY time when i start steam on my PC?
And also, do i have to authenticate EVERY card sale?

No, to your first question.
Yes, kinda, to your second question. Your Steam app will get a notification whenever you put a card (or anything else) to sell). You just have to go to the Confirmation menu of the App and confirm it. Repeat for every item you try to sell.

Thanks to the stupid trade hold and the free cards you get on the Summer Sale (plus some cards I had previously), I now have 25 cards on hold that won’t get on the market until the sale is over. Well, I’m certainly not gonna give up my old school Nokia just for that and also to spite Valve. Them pushing me to use the mobile authenticator just makes me want to push back. Fine, I won’t get as much money for my cards on the Steam trade market then, which means I won’t be able to pay for as many games without adding money from my bank account (which I’m reluctant to do).

Does Microsoft really need this parasite? All steam is doing is feeding off this system taking away players freedom & sucking PC gaming dry, by holding ten fold monopoly’s on games, This mobile attachment is proof It knows where its bread is buttered & needs to latch on to it again in another form, Microsoft needs to cut this parasite out & put it back where the sun don’t shine! its the biggest pest for ever for windows/pc/& now mobile players.